Record ID:
262851
Accession number:
MA 733.45
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Address panel with seal and postmarks.
Part of a collection of letters from John Newton primarily to Mrs. Gardiner. Items in the collection have been described separately in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 733 for more information.
Summary:
Congratulating him on his marriage, complaining of a fever, and concluding his discomfort should be "sufft. to demonstrate to the Philosopher that Pain is the greatest of all Evils, except that of being a Batchelor."
Provenance:
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. probably before 1913.
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